English: Built in 1890-1904, this Renaissance Revival and Chateauesque-style building was designed by Eckel and Mann to serve as St. Louis City Hall. The building was based on the Hotel de Ville in Paris, France, with different materials on the facade, and slightly altered exterior details. The building is clad in red smooth-faced medina sandstone at the base and first floor, with tan berea sandstone trim and buff roman brick above on the exterior of the second, third, and fourth floors, as well as the towers and dormers. Above this, the hipped roof is clad in terra cotta tile with copper trim and cresting, with oxeye dormers and gutters, as well as hipped roofs and gabled dormers. The building also features arched entrances, porches with doric columns, oxeye windows on the third floor, a clock face at the central bay of the front facade of the building, and quoins and cartouches at the corners of the building at the second and third floor. The interior of the building features a large, multi-story lobby with marble columns and cladding, gold trim, balconies, a ceiling with stained glass and coffered panels, and a large marble staircase, with hallways featuring vaulted ceilings, marble wainscoting, and coffered ceilings. The building originally featured towers on the roof and towers, which were eventually removed in the 20th Century to reduce maintenance costs, reducing the building’s height to 262 feet (80 meters). The building was listed as a St. Louis Landmark in 1971.